Francis Crake

Francis William Crake (1893-28 November 1920) was a British Army captain during the Irish War of Independence.

Biography
Francis William Clarke was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1893, and he served in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment of the British Army during World War I. Crake was awarded the Military Cross for bravery during the 1918 Hundred Days Offensive, reorganizing shattered troops to capture a German battery. In August 1920, he was sent to command a unit of Royal Irish Constabulary policemen during the Irish War of Independence, and he was ambushed near Kilmichael on 28 November 1920 while leading a motorized patrol. Crake was killed in the ambush.